UCT correspondence around #RhodesMustFall

Recent protest action on university campuses nationwide has drawn attention to critical issues affecting the higher education arena, and the country more broadly. What started in early 2015 at UCT with calls for the removal of the Rhodes statue has grown to include calls to end rising student fees, outsourcing of workers, police brutality and patriarchal practices on campus. Below is correspondence, stories and opinions connected to the calls for the removal of the Rhodes statue.

For correspondence around #FeesMustFall and #EndOutsourcing published in late 2015, click here.
UCT correspondence around debates in higher education, click here.

Students in South Africa protest slow pace of change 20:00, 3 September 2015

'Queering the academy' – sexuality conference on campus 08:22, 3 September 2015

How to transform the Humanities 10:06, 17 August 2015

'Diverse societies should not curtail free speech' 13:45, 14 August 2015

Discomfort needn't be a bad thing, says new transformation special advisor 08:24, 29 July 2015

Answers to alumni FAQs re: Rhodes statue 15:25, 22 June 2015

We're in a moment like 1976, says Soudien 13:09, 12 June 2015

Appointment of Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor on Transformation 08:37, 12 June 2015

South African students must be given the chance to read what they like 08:19, 5 June 2015

Transformation: what's the past got to do with it? 16:34, 26 May 2015

UCT and Rhodes Must Fall sign agreement 14:48, 26 May 2015

Disrupting gender: 'decolonisation necessarily requires degendering' 09:39, 21 May 2015

How do we decolonise UCT? 12:05, 19 May 2015

UCT grants amnesty to protesters 07:54, 18 May 2015

Journey of an African academic 14:35, 17 May 2015

On Rhodes, decolonisation and UCT management 14:29, 11 May 2015

TransformUCT: Drop punitive policy, give students space 13:18, 8 May 2015

Transforming UCT from the ground up 14:38, 6 May 2015

Letter to SRC Presidents by Ramabina Mahapa (UCT SRC President) 14:14, 5 May 2015

44 years of walking past CJR 14:40, 3 May 2015

One on one with Zine Magubane 14:41, 2 May 2015

Announcing public consultation phase re: Rhodes statue 09:48, 16 April 2015

Give us another space, says RMF 15:03, 14 April 2015

Rhodes falls 10:00, 13 April 2015

TransformUCT: ‘The future is watching’ 09:53, 13 April 2015

Transformation: Vibrant student spaces needed 09:15, 13 April 2015

Urgent update on the Rhodes statue and Bremner occupation 10:57, 10 April 2015

Rhodes goes quietly amid jubilation 19:13, 9 April 2015

UCT's Rhodes statue to be removed at 17h00 today 14:24, 9 April 2015

An end to assimilation, the right to self-determination 13:51, 9 April 2015

SRC welcomes Council's decision to remove the Rhodes statue 22:03, 8 April 2015

UCT Council votes in favour of removing Rhodes statue 20:34, 8 April 2015

UCT and Heritage Western Cape's joint statement on the temporary removal of the Rhodes statue from upper campus 20:16, 8 April 2015

Faster, more decisive transformation needed – Rod Solomons 12:26, 8 April 2015

Convocation debates Rhodes and transformation 12:05, 8 April 2015

UCT Convocation expresses views on Rhodes statue's future and broader transformation issues 19:49, 7 April 2015

Opinion Piece: Professor Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass 14:45, 6 April 2015

Leslie Bank debates the future of UCT's Rhodes statue 14:54, 1 April 2015

UCT Academics Union statement on #RhodesMustFall 09:32, 1 April 2015

'History changes over time – nobody owns it' 10:40, 31 March 2015

Response to Sunday Independent article: 'Adebajo distorts Price's view on Rhodes' 08:11, 31 March 2015

Rhodes: Views from a black associate professor at UCT 02:51, 31 March 2015

The Rhodes debate: Dead men walking 01:41, 31 March 2015

The Rhodes debate: How we can have the last laugh 11:43, 30 March 2015

UCT Association of Black Alumni (UCTABA) view on Rhodes statue 10:04, 29 March 2015

From the VC's Desk: Update on Rhodes statue and occupation of Bremner Building 08:05, 28 March 2015

Podcast: The Khonza Show 04:55, 28 March 2015

UCT Senate vote in favour of moving Rhodes statue 10:56, 27 March 2015

UCT protest is not about Cecil 09:12, 27 March 2015

South Africa's odious monument to Cecil John Rhodes 15:02, 26 March 2015

Decolonising institutions, organisations, and minds 20:04, 25 March 2015

UCT: An ode to Rhodes 16:16, 25 March 2015

Cry for transformation rings out at packed assembly 20:49, 25 March 2015

Rhodes, Rancière and the politics of aesthetics 15:21, 25 March 2015

Must Rhodes fall? 09:03, 25 March 2015

Racism at Rhodes, Cecil's statue at UCT 15:23, 24 March 2015

Podcast: The Daily Maverick Show 15:22, 24 March 2015

The Rhodes to introspection 15:20, 24 March 2015

Danger of 'rationalist conceit' 15:19, 24 March 2015

The big racial divide: Rhodes statue 14:42, 24 March 2015

Black academics support #RhodesMustFall campaign 13:21, 24 March 2015

From the VC's Desk: Progress in discussing the removal of Rhodes statue 11:59, 24 March 2015

Until the lion has its own storyteller 10:44, 23 March 2015

Students continue peaceful occupation of Bremner 10:21, 23 March 2015

Whose heritage are we preserving? 09:03, 23 March 2015

UCT Student Parliament's statement on Rhodes statue 15:46, 20 March 2015

Assoc Prof Xolela Mangcu argues that UCT student protesters have shattered the myth that 'race doesn't matter' 15:37, 20 March 2015

Price applauds students for bringing transformation issues into focus 15:19, 20 March 2015

UCT response to posting of swastika photos on Jameson Hall 06:38, 20 March 2015

Transform UCT: It's about more than race 15:02, 19 March 2015

Reflections on Rhodes: A story of time 09:55, 19 March 2015

Open letter from former SRC presidents: ‘Rhodes must fall’ 08:37, 19 March 2015

Rhodes: The unresolved question of symbolic justice 08:33, 19 March 2015

Academics Union Executive Statement on Rhodes 17:26, 18 March 2015

UCT’s elephant in the room: #RhodesMustFall 10:19, 18 March 2015

From the VC's Desk: Rhodes statue protests and transformation 08:29, 18 March 2015

Legacy of Rhodes is not black and white 08:40, 17 March 2015

Climate of trust needed for transformation 05:49, 17 March 2015

Students campaign for Rhodes statue removal 17:58, 16 March 2015

'The Rhodes statue must fall': UCT's radical rebirth 08:18, 16 March 2015

White students: Why we need to think deeper and do better 08:42, 14 March 2015

Forced removal: Time to claim new space by removing Rhodes statue 08:46, 13 March 2015

What students think of the UCT poo protest 08:44, 13 March 2015

Statement by Students' Representative Council 08:49, 11 March 2015